“Alright as we bring this meeting to a close,” The Colonel said from the head of the long table that dominated the conference room, “I just wanted to address a personal pet peeve of mine that is going to start becoming an issue again shortly.” My ears perked up, I stopped doodling in my notebook,ContinueContinue reading “Check Your Hubris at the Door: Mud”
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Check Your Hubris at the Door: The Colonel Wants to See You
“I see your patch,” the Colonel said, foregoing any formal greeting of any kind. He had zeroed into the two-inch stitch of cloth announcing my status as a basic free-fall parachutist as he ushered me into his office from the waiting room, “can I take it that you are an Academy grad?” “Yes sir,” IContinueContinue reading “Check Your Hubris at the Door: The Colonel Wants to See You”
Check Your Hubris at the Door: A Lieutenancy Retrospective
With May, and the end of my four years as a Lieutenant in the Air Force, rapidly approaching I thought it would be somewhat appropriate to put together a collection of stories that have occurred over the past few years. Some of these stories happened to me, and some of them happened to others. IndividualsContinueContinue reading “Check Your Hubris at the Door: A Lieutenancy Retrospective”
2016 Hunting Chapter 2: Farmegeddon
The following weekend hunt ended up being one of the more eventful weekends out at the hunting ranch. Coined “Farmageddon,” the hunting party ended up shooting only one very small deer. But we did harvest a few other animals. Most notable among them was an Auodad, which is one of the many African exotic animalsContinueContinue reading “2016 Hunting Chapter 2: Farmegeddon”
2016 Texas Deer Hunting, Chapter 1
If we are being completely honest, “Deer Hunting” doesn’t quite adequately describe the hunting efforts this year, as although deer were the primary target of my hunting excursions, this season brought new game animal opportunities outside of just deer that I had not really anticipated. As I previously wrote, I tried my hand at archeryContinueContinue reading “2016 Texas Deer Hunting, Chapter 1”